the Elgar Companion to Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty: Contested Networks, Territories and Self determination

This comprehensive Companion explores the rise of digital sovereignty as a guiding principle of digital policy in different regions of the world. It analyses digital transformation within larger geopolitical and geoeconomic processes and provides a historically and geographically context-sensitive overview of research in this field of growing importance. Expert authors combine approaches from digital geography, with its sensitivity to the socio-technical shaping of socio-spatial relations, and political geography, with its focus on questions of the spatial organisation of the (political) world with research from political sciences, law, computer sciences and economics. With comparative analysis through an international range of case studies, chapters shed light on the concept of digital sovereignty through a multi-stakeholder lens which includes states, private actors and civil society. Laying the foundations for a political geography of the digital age, this book is an essential reference for researchers and students in political and digital geography, geopolitics, internet studies and digital social science more broadly.